Lets say I have $10 in my bank account. The database is replicated in North America and Asia. At the exact same time I do a withdrawl of $10 in N. America and in Asia, meaning that my withdraw would ...

I'm trying to link 2 SQL Servers (2008 and 2005). I have tried it via the GUI and scripts, and having no luck. I have problems trying to to query through it with access. As I'm not the Admin of the ...

I've been task to move our web servers to the cloud for all countries that use our services for localization.
The issue is, they must share the same data and therefore I need to set up some database ...

I'm trying to learn something about distributed databases and I stumbled upon the concepts of fragmentation and partitioning. It seems to me as if both do the same thing and produce similar results ...

Can anybody suggest me any resources of the complete installation procedure of postgres-XC in windows. I've installed postgresql-9.2 in my windows and can use it. Now I need to know the installation ...

I have the hardest time downloading anything other than enterprise edition from vertica.com. It is supposed to have a community edition on https://my.vertica.com/community/ but all the links just show ...

I have not done such migration before and I want to know if I am going to face such issues when moving my database (tables,views,table-spaces,functions,procedures,etc.) to other DB2 distribution.
If ...

I have many text files, their total size is about 300GB ~ 400GB. They are all in this format
key1 value_a
key1 value_b
key1 value_c
key2 value_d
key3 value_e
....
each line is composed by a key and ...

We have our main MySQL server in city A. We have the bulk of our customer service staff in city B. The staff are complaining that the connection is too slow to the server. The options are:
Have them ...

I'm setting up a pair of PostgreSQL servers. Because cash is short I can only afford one high class server and some crapy backup box. If the expensive high end box should catch fire, operations can ...